Downsizing? February 11, 2025 Hello, We have one bookcase that seems to be a collection point for various odds and ends. There are a number of photo albums there. I have not looked at them in a long time, maybe not even in the 13 years we have lived here. I wondered if I could just throw them away, but I looked at them and rather enjoyed that. I know many have scanned their photos to keep them. Our printer will not scan so how to do that? I also have to confess that the idea of doing that does not interest me at all. Maybe I could let the next generation throw them out when we have both died. That is a seductive thought. Less bother for me and perhaps it will be easy for them to do. My mother also kept a diary. Not a diary filled with words but one that told the weather and when a crop was planted or harvested. Certainly not titillating content. But could it be of value for history? Then, I found a small book in a box that was my grandmother’s there is a year’s worth of days, with text in German.

She had put birthdays in there. Not all birthdays, but some going back to the 1800’s. It seems a shame to eliminate that, but what use is it? I also have an autograph book from that grandmother.

The kind of book where friends wrote notes.

She was my father’s mother and the only grandmother I knew. Paula